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...Soothing Syrup. In domestic policy the new Communist line is equally placatory. Thorez insists that the present stage of French development calls for a democratic regime and that the only ambition of the Communist Party is to be the most democratic of French parties. It follows, he says, that the French Communist Party will govern only if it gets the support of a majority of the French people. On nationalization of industry, the last Assembly went almost as far as the Communists want to go, except that they would like to see all-rather than some-heavy industry taken over...
...learned these signs and put them to use. First to interpret the bee law of dance and scent was Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich. Near a hive he placed a square of cardboard perfumed with bergamot oil, and on it a dish full of sugar syrup. Fifty yards away he arranged a row of cards. None offered syrup, but each had a different scent. One was oil of bergamot...
...professor fed twelve bees on the bergamot-scented syrup. They returned to the hive and danced their dance. Within an hour, 216 bees paid calls on the sugarless, bergamot-scented card...
...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
...sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal at 5 p.m., and, up to last week, had never been out of Indiana...